{"id":509097,"date":"2022-10-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/maccabi-signed-jalen-adams\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:59:18","slug":"maccabi-signed-jalen-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/maccabi-signed-jalen-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi signed Jalen Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-video-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9WxnNgYkfR0\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div> \t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Following the absence of Darrun Hilliard, who injured his leg during the league game against Ness Ziona and will miss the upcoming games, Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv responded quickly and signed Jalen Adams for three months with an option until the end of the season. The 26-year-old American combo-guard (1.91 m) played last season in the Hapoel Jerusalem ranks and will now join coach Oded Kattash&#8217;s back court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;Jalen Adams has very good and well-known offensive abilities,&#8221; explained coach Oded Kattash after the guard&#8217;s signing. &#8220;There is a situation where we need another creative guard for the rotation and he will be able to help us. I am happy that he is joining Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;I am excited and thankful for the opportunity to play for a prestigious organization like Maccabi. The tradition and culture behind the team is like no other&#8221;, Jalen Adams told maccabi.co.il. &#8220;With that being said, I am looking forward to joining the already talented team and help compete for championships&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"587\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/adams20980.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\" class=\"wp-image-521427 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/adams20980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/adams20980-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/adams20980-768x460.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Adams is able to play both guard positions and is considered a confident scorer who also creats situaztions for his teammates. Last season with Jerusalem he scored 15.1 points, grabbed 3.4 rebounds and passed 3.3 assists on average per game in the regular season.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In the seven playoff games of the Reds from the capital, he averaged 13.4 points (50% for twos, 38.7% from threes and 84.6% from free throws), 6.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists per evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In Hapoel Jerusalem&#8217;s nine games in the FIBA Champions League, Adams led his team&#8217;s scorers with 17.8 points (40% from three), collected 4.6 rebounds, handed out 2.9 assists and added 1.3 steals per game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/adams20drives20980X551.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\" class=\"wp-image-521428 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/adams20drives20980X551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/adams20drives20980X551-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/adams20drives20980X551-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Jalen Adams was born on December 11, 1995 in Massachusetts, northeastern United States. After a short start in the ranks of South Florida, he was accepted into the successful basketball program of the University of Connecticut. In his last three college seasons, he averaged double figures and ranked 12th all-time among Huskies scorers, but was not drafted in the summer of 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">He was then signed to a short contract by New Orleans, after which he played for the Pelicans&#8217; G-League team. In the 2020\/21 season, he played 7 games for Chalone from the French league and contributed 20.3 points, 3.1 rebounds and 3 assists per game. He then returned to the Erie Bayhawks from the G-League and in August of 2021 joined Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In the first game against Maccabi last season, he was held to 5 points, but in the second meeting he provided 26 points, 5 assists and 4 rebounds and in the third round he scored 26 points again for the reds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ja4hunnid\"><u><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Jalen Adams on Twitter &gt;<\/span><\/strong><\/u><\/a><\/div>\n<div> \t<\/div>\n<div> \t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/ja4hunnid\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><u><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Jalen Adams on Instagram &gt;<\/span><\/strong><\/u><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American guard, who played last season for Hapoel Jerusalem, was added to the back court with a three-month contract. Coach Kattash: &#8220;There is a situation where another creative guard is needed and he will be able to help us&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":521426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-509097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521434,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509097\/revisions\/521434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509097"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=509097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}